Phone Booths by Famous Architects (By Famous Architects Series)
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Sometimes no matter how hard
opportunity knocks on the glass,
you're on the phone for Pete's sake!
opportunity knocks on the glass,
you're on the phone for Pete's sake!
This is one of those weird books that you just can't help but be curious about. :)
It was just too funny a concept. I'm not sure the reality was as funny as the idea of it but it was fun to read their parodies of famous structures. Kind of gives you a new angle to view them from.
But now there is someone else that would like to read it. So off it goes as a trade! :)
It was just too funny a concept. I'm not sure the reality was as funny as the idea of it but it was fun to read their parodies of famous structures. Kind of gives you a new angle to view them from.
But now there is someone else that would like to read it. So off it goes as a trade! :)
The Big Box of Trade Books arrived safely today; many thanks! This sounded like a fun concept for a book, one that might work well as a themed release near a suitably offbeat sculpture - and/or phone booth...
Later: Definitely more fun in concept than execution, I'm afraid, though part of that has to do with my ignorance of the styles of a good percentage of the architects selected. I enjoyed the preface - ostensibly by the punnily-pseudonymed "Clare Loose Booth" - which offers a variety of reasons to preserve the now-mostly-vanished phone booths, including "room for superheroes to put on their tights and capes" (this reminded me of the excellent sight-gag in Christopher Reeve's first Superman movie, where - seeking a place to change to his costume - he spies a modern-style pay-phone that's just a shelf, no actual enclosure, does a sad double-take, and moves on). Of the architects, the entries that amused me most included Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe - whose linear style resulted in a phone booth indistinguishable from the classic style; Eero Saarinen, whose Kresge Auditorium at MIT is one of the architectural styles I actually recognized; and Sir Norman Foster, whose phone booth is a standard red UK phone box with a dome on top that's reminiscent either of Foster's work on the Reichstag - or his work on the "Gherkin"...
I also appreciated the "engineer log book" format; each page is carefully numbered as "page X of 64 pages", with a sidebar including space for a revision history. Nice touch!
Later: Definitely more fun in concept than execution, I'm afraid, though part of that has to do with my ignorance of the styles of a good percentage of the architects selected. I enjoyed the preface - ostensibly by the punnily-pseudonymed "Clare Loose Booth" - which offers a variety of reasons to preserve the now-mostly-vanished phone booths, including "room for superheroes to put on their tights and capes" (this reminded me of the excellent sight-gag in Christopher Reeve's first Superman movie, where - seeking a place to change to his costume - he spies a modern-style pay-phone that's just a shelf, no actual enclosure, does a sad double-take, and moves on). Of the architects, the entries that amused me most included Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe - whose linear style resulted in a phone booth indistinguishable from the classic style; Eero Saarinen, whose Kresge Auditorium at MIT is one of the architectural styles I actually recognized; and Sir Norman Foster, whose phone booth is a standard red UK phone box with a dome on top that's reminiscent either of Foster's work on the Reichstag - or his work on the "Gherkin"...
I also appreciated the "engineer log book" format; each page is carefully numbered as "page X of 64 pages", with a sidebar including space for a revision history. Nice touch!
Journal Entry 4 by 
GoryDetails
at Pawtucket Canal (see notes) in Lowell, Massachusetts USA on Friday, September 28, 2018
GoryDetails at Pawtucket Canal (see notes) in Lowell, Massachusetts USA on Friday, September 28, 2018
Released 5 yrs ago (9/28/2018 UTC) at Pawtucket Canal (see notes) in Lowell, Massachusetts USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I left this book, bagged against the elements, on a bench near the restored canal buildings on the Pawtucket Canal at Broadway and Tyng Streets. (Saw some people visiting the historical site via canal-boat tours - I'll have to take the tour one of these days!) Hope the finder enjoys the book![See other recent releases in MA here.]
*** Released for the 2018 Keep Them Moving release challenge. ***
